Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, Holger Danske, sentence 23
The third lion reminded him of Margaret, who united Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.
Who acts: third lion, Margaret · What happens: remind, unite · To what, where: Norway, Denmark
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Holger Danske. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third lion, Margaret), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lion | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 lion | amod |
| 3 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reminded | nsubj |
| 4 | reminded | remind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reminded | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Margaret | case |
| 7 | Margaret | Margaret | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reminded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 united | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 united | nsubj |
| 10 | united | unite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Margaret | acl:relcl |
| 11 | Denmark | Denmark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 united | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Sweden | punct |
| 13 | Sweden | Sweden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Denmark | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Norway | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Norway | cc |
| 16 | Norway | Norway | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 reminded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | past | the third lion | Norway | Denmark | of Margaret | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of margaret=Topic | ||
| 2 | unite | past | Margaret | Denmark and Sweden | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent denmark=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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